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Fastly's Platform TLS enables secure browsing at scale

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 18 Sept 2018
The Web is becoming more secure.
The Web is becoming more secure.

Edge cloud platform provider Fastly has introduced Platform TLS, which facilitates secure browsing at scale for the hundreds of thousands of domains served from the Fastly edge cloud platform.

According to Fastly, the solution helps organisations and brands build trust with end-users as well as automate and configure Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate and key management.

The local market will benefit too, as in April last year, Fastly announced it had added SA to its global network reach by collaborating with global network service provider Workonline Communications and data centre service provider Teraco, to provide high-speed Internet services.

According to Fastly, online brand identity goes beyond design and speed. Browsing unencrypted sites can lead to third parties observing and tampering with the actions and information of consumers, which in turn can result in data leaks, privacy violations, fraud, and identity theft.

However, Fastly says the Web is evolving and taking steps towards becoming more secure by default. Certain Web browsers now flag insecure Web sites that use the unencrypted HTTP protocol, and Google Search, down-ranks them.

Managing certificates

Large organisations, including those that offer mass hosting, or with multi-brand portfolios, can use Platform TLS to manage individual certificates in bulk, instead of relying on a number of different vendors across their digital presence.

Available through Fastly's API, Platform TLS reduces manual processes and saves engineering time by automating certificate acquisition and deployment, as well as enables global distribution of encrypted transactions to central clouds. This frees up workloads and supports the delivery of hundreds of thousands of certificates, including those from Let's Encrypt, a widely used certification authority.

All sites should use HTTPS

Josh Aas, executive director of Internet Security Research Group, the organisation behind Let's Encrypt, says all sites need to use HTTPS, because unencrypted plain HTTP traffic can be modified to contain malicious payloads.

"Encrypting every site on the Web means embracing automation and ease of use for managing HTTPS deployments, and that's why we created Let's Encrypt. We're happy to see Fastly embrace those principles to help more people and organisations secure their sites."

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